Here’s an interesting question. Does creation exist?

Have you ever created anything? Does anything exist? Are you a solipsist? All kinds of philosophical questions!? (Apply the above to the idea of having an idea.)

“I think, therefore I am.” If I create, doesn’t creation exist? Do you really think that science can explain human experience in terms of the fundamental principles of physics? Can human values be found within the structure of the atom?

If you think I am a Xian with a belief in biblical creation, then you probably don’t understand my name.

(I actually have worked with some really neat dino microfossils and enjoy science, I just tend to dislike scientific hubris.)

Just out of curiosity, is there hard, replicable evidence for macro-evolution? As in laboratory controlled experiments in which new organ systems, appendages, or other biological systems have developed in ways that would be consistent with evolutionary theory, perhaps resulting in totally new species that “evolved” from pre-existing species? There is no question about experiments showing what would be considered micro-evolution (changes within a species resulting in new varieties), but being able to cite scientific proof for the evolution of complex biological systems based upon laboratory experiments would pretty much end the debate. Can you cite scientific literature in which carbon-based organic life has been created from inorganic chemicals? Since science is supposed to have all the answers, these should be pretty simple to provide.

I’d also like to point out the fact that much of science and mathematics are built upon unprovable assumptions. If you accept something as true that is unprovable, doesn’t that imply faith?

My training was in math and physics, and it always seemed to me that the inability to apply reductionism is a major problem in science. For instance, can anyone using current scientific knowledge logically and scientifically explain human consciousness as a logical and necessary consequence of the big bang? Seriously, can you start with the big bang, and logically, using current scientific knowledge, explain all of physical existence and human experience?

Can you prove uniformitarianism as applied to the universe, or the axioms and postulates of mathematics?

If you can, then I will be very impressed and will need to revise my Weltanschuung. I guess this is kind of my challenge to the skeptics out there.

This shouldn’t be particularly surprising. Both evolution-”ism” and creationism in their modern forms began at the same time. However, Evolutionary biologists have 150 years of solid, replicable studies and reams of supportive anatomical, morphological, and genetic data, whereas creationists must begin by refuting virtually every fact of biology and geology learned in that same time. It is no wonder their understanding is so limited, for they’ve effectively thrown the baby out with the bathwater, then triumphantly declared that there’s nothing crying, so there must never have been a baby in the first place.

Please understand, I am not arguing here but many seem to think that creationists are a bunch of religious nuts who close their ears to anything that doesn’t fit their faith. And that is simply not true. Many are highly educated research scientists who have seriously considered evolution and studied its evidence and found it to be lacking in feasible explanations for why things exist as they do. They are often censured in the universities and scientific publications even though their research is as sound as the scientist who advocates evolution.

This is what distresses creationists: that they are considered unscientific simply because they have reached a different conclusion than evolutionists.

Sounds like “shunning” to me. Wasn’t that a major criticism of the Puritans?

Wayne